Eagles: 'Hotel California' Gets 40th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue

The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame-inducted album is slated for a deluxe-reissue treatment to honor its 40th anniversary

Brian Haack

GRAMMYs

Oct 20, 2017 - 12:59 pm

Six-time GRAMMY-winning classic-rock band the Eagles may have countless hits to their name, but they are arguably most universally known for the title track to their hugely successful 1976 album, Hotel California.

The album (GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, 2008) is set to receive a 40th-anniversary reissue next month, and will come packaged along with a suite of 10 additional tracks recorded live at a 1976 show at The Forum in Los Angeles. A deluxe edition package will also be available, containing additional high-resolution stereo and 5.1 remasters of the LP, along with a book of previously unpublished photos.

The album's second track, "New Kid In Town," sung by the late Glenn Frey, earned Best Arrangement For Voices honors at the 20th GRAMMY Awards. The now-iconic title track (GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, 2003) won the band the GRAMMY for Record Of The Year and the album snagged nominations for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance. However, the band famously no-showed because they didn't think they had a chance of winning, as The Hollywood Reporter revealed in 2016.

Following a touching tribute to the late Frey at the 58th GRAMMY Awards, show producer Ken Ehrlich and Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow stopped the band from leaving the stage in order to present them their Record Of The Year GRAMMY statuettes, which had gone unclaimed since 1977.

The Hotel California 40th-anniversary package will be available on Nov. 24.

'Fleetwood Mac': 1975 Classic LP To Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks

Reissue to feature a variety of extras, including the original album remastered, alternate outtakes and live tracks

Tim McPhate

GRAMMYs

Nov 17, 2017 - 7:57 am

It's technically not a debut album, but as far as Fleetwood Mac are concerned, it's the LP that gave birth to a historic lineup.

Released in 1975, Fleetwood Mac will be given a special reissue treatment this coming January. The album — the first to feature the quintet Lindsey Buckingham,Mick Fleetwood,Christine McVie, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks— featured the hits and live staples "Landslide" (Nicks), "Rhiannon" (Nicks), "Monday Morning" (Buckingham), and "Over My Head" (Christine McVie).

Dropping Jan. 29, the reissue will be available in several formats, including a deluxe edition featuring three CDs, a DVD and a vinyl LP. An expanded two-CD version will also be released, as will a single disc featuring a remastered version of the original album. The remastered version will also be available digitally and on streaming services.

The expanded versions will contain a complete alternate version of the album made up entirely of previously unreleased outtakes and 1976 live recordings.

Fleetwood Mac — which was followed by 1977's blockbuster, Rumours — was the group's first LP to top the Billboard 200. The album was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2016.

For more information on purchasing VIP ticket packages to the event, contactDana Tomarkenat MusiCares at 310.581.8727. Individual tickets for mezzanine seats are on-sale to the general public via Ticketmaster.

The reissue will be available exclusively at the band's upcoming anniversary show and via their official website

Brian Haack

GRAMMYs

Oct 30, 2017 - 4:30 pm

With the official 10-year anniversary of the release of Bon Iver's hugely acclaimed self-distributed debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, still close in the rearview mirror, the group's frontman, songwriter and overall mastermind Justin Vernon has announced the album will receive a vinyl reissue treatment in conjunction with a special one-night-only anniversary performance set for February 2018.

Content Not Available

The reissue will be available on CD and vinyl, packaged with new artwork and an essay by Vernon's frequent collaborator Trever Hagen. The reissue will be exclusively available from Bon Iver's live show merch table and via the band's official website.

The Strokes: New York Rockers' Early Years Revealed In New Photo Book

Music photographer Cody Smyth's new book will provide an intimate look into the first days of New York rockers the Strokes

Brian Haack

GRAMMYs

Aug 30, 2017 - 12:10 pm

New York City during the first decade of the 2000s was a wellspring of young bands eager to spit in the faces of music critics who'd been quick to call radio's transition from the largely Seattle-based sounds of grunge and post-punk alternative into the bubblegum pop sounds of the new millennium the dying gasps of guitar-driven rock.

Leading the charge during that period, the Strokes were one of the biggest of the "local" bands playing the club circuit, and also one of the first to really break out onto the global scene and sign a huge deal with a major label. This era of raucous rebellion has been recently documented in Lizzy Goodman's fantastic compilation Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth And Rock And Roll In New York City: 2001-2011, which chronicled the various bands – the Strokes chief among them – who were central to that rising movement.

A new catalogue of moments from that singular time will also arrive this October: music photographer Cody Smyth has compiled his best stories and photos from his years embedded with the Strokes into a forthcoming volume titles The Strokes: The First Ten Years. The book will be the "first authorized visual record" of the band's early years, and is being heralded as, "a peerless window into the group through the lens of a close friend who was there before it even began."

Eagles Announce New Tour Dates With Deacon Frey, Vince Gill

The six-time GRAMMY winning band has made the surprise announcement of additional tour dates this coming fall

Brian Haack

GRAMMYs

Aug 15, 2017 - 12:49 pm

GRAMMY.com

For anyone counting, Eagles drummer and founding member Don Henley is officially 0 for 2 on claiming his band will never tour again.

Following a pair of successful and critically acclaimed festival appearances at the Classic West and theClassic East this past July, six-time GRAMMY winners the Eagles have made the surprise announcement that they have scheduled four additional tour dates this fall.

The two festival appearances were the band's first performances in the wake of the tragic passing of guitarist and lead vocalist Glenn Frey at the age of 67 in early 2016.

Taking the late, iconic lead singer's place on both vocals and guitar for the upcoming dates will be his son Deacon Frey, alongside 21-time GRAMMY winning Country singer/songwriter Vince Gill.

Following a heartfelt in memoriam tribute to the elder Frey at the 58th GRAMMY Awards alongside Jackson Browne, Henley had been quoted in March of 2016 as saying the band would not be touring again, calling the GRAMMY tribute a "fitting farewell." Yet there still seemed to be a need to sayfarewell to the fans themselves who'd followed the band during its now 46+ year run, an opportunity the band had at the east and west editions of the Classic festival.

However, with a band this great, it's well-nigh impossible to say no when the fans demand an encore, and demand they have. Thus longtime followers of the group may remember back to 1982, when Henley was first asked if the band would ever play together again following their 1980 disbanding, to which he simply responded "When Hell freezes over."

Some of the content on this site expresses viewpoints and opinions that are not those of the Recording Academy. Responsibility for the accuracy of information provided in stories not written by or specifically prepared for the Academy lies with the story's original source or writer. Content on this site does not reflect an endorsement or recommendation of any artist or music by the Recording Academy.